Quote of the day: 'Would you like to take that poison?' — Councillor on new taxes to pay for TTC

“I want to make sure you’re not going to ask them to choose from a menu of taxes because it’s like asking ‘which poison would you like to drink? Would you like the hemlock, would you like the rat poison, would you like this?’ We should be asking: ‘would you like to take that poison?'”

Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong on how the city should carry out public consultations on how to pay for transit expansion. He suggested the city ask drivers, via electronic signs on highways, what they think about tolls or, at the pump, if they would pay a gas tax and point them to a website.